Melanie Chanona, undergraduate student in Mathematical Physics, is a co-winner of the 2015 Jessie W.H. Zou Memorial Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research.
Nine graduate degrees in Applied Mathematics were awarded at the Spring 2015 convocation:
Three graduate students in Applied Math have won outstanding TA awards for 2014-2015.
Three Applied Math graduate students competed in the 2015 Three-Minute Thesis competition, in which students have one slide and three minutes to explain their thesis research to a general audience.
The Physics News website phys.org has highlighted work by three applied math researchers: PhD student Robert Jonsson, Research Assistant Professor Eduardo Martín-Martínez, and Professor Achim Kempf.
Applied math undergraduate Shouzhen Gu, along with teammates Shun Da Suo and Wuhan Zhou in the BBA/BCS program, have won a silver medal in the 2014 University Physics Competition for their contribution on circumbinary planets. The competition attracted contributions from 131 teams, and awarded 2 gold and 23 silver medals.
The following Applied Mathematics students who were awarded scholarships for 2014-2015 were honoured at the Annual Faculty of Mathematics Banquet:
Applied Mathematics Master's student, Tawsif Khan, won the Faculty of Mathematics 3-minute thesis heat held on March 3, 2015, with his talk titled "Optimal Sensor Location".
Researchers from Applied Math, along with colleagues at the Harvard Medical School, have found a new approach for attacking drug resistant cancer cells.
The Waterloo International Genetically Engineered Machine competition (iGEM) team recently won Gold Standing and Best Model at the 2014 iGEM Giant Jamboree.